Letter: Poly anomaly

From
BILL GEORGE

Your article ‘Polytechnics demand an end to ‘intellectual apartheid’
‘ (This Week, 7 April) contains a serious inaccuracy. It dwells on the anomalies
of the operation of the dual-support policy for research and, in particular,
on iniquities in the way it applies within the polytechnics via the PCFC,
compared with the treatment of universities via the UFC.

Polytechnics are not, as stated in your article, all within the PCFC
sector, since the Polytechnic of Wales is in the third sector within England
and Wales, MFHAE, within which it has recently received significantly less
all-round support than any other polytechnic.